What are some practical(or even some obscure) tools/techniques that can be used to minimize data aggregated about you when you're going about your day to day internet usage.<p>Perhaps a list of tools/apis that can maximize user privacy would be useful to many of us?
I use a dedicated virtual machine for Facebook. I have another for Linkedin, and a third for Gmail. I run noscript and ghostery in Firefox, on my normal desktop. I revoke temporary permissions after I am done with the webpage.<p>The VM's pretty much eliminate cross site tracking where I have explicitly identified myself. The Firefox addons reduce the amount of tracking from ordinary sites.<p>I also am cautious with regard to linking my smartphone to sites like Facebook.